What are the traditional festivals and customs of the Dulong people?

The Dulong used to believe in the spirit of all things, worship natural objects and believe in ghosts. They believed that there were ghosts in wind, rain, electricity, thunder, mountains, water, boulders and strange trees. Ghosts would bring misfortune to people, so in order to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, people would spend a lot of livestock and food to sacrifice ghosts. The Dulong tribe sacrifices ghosts by sorcerers, there are two kinds of sorcerers, one is called "Namusa", presiding over the rituals, playing trigrams, and the other is called "Raiders of the Woods", specializing in exorcism, "Namusa" has a higher status

The Dulong tribe sacrifices ghosts by sorcerers.

Traditional Festivals of the Dulong People

The only festival of the Dulong people is the New Year's Day, which is celebrated in the month of Lunar New Year, with no fixed date, and the length of the festival depends on the amount of food available, which is called the "Kachuowo" festival.

Traditional festival of the Dulong people--Dulong New Year

The Dulong people call this festival "Kachuowo". It is the only festival of the year for the Dulong people. They celebrate December 29th as New Year's Eve and 30th as the first day of the New Year.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were two brothers living on the banks of the Dulong River. They lost their parents when they were young, and took the old forest as their home, hunting with crossbows and spending their time in misery. One day, the two brothers carrying long knives, hand holding a hard crossbow, came to Tandali card snow mountain on the Bila barrel hunting. This day the sky clouds, animals do not come out of the nest. In the late afternoon, only to see a small rock sheep. The two brothers, split up to outflank it. Brother lost the direction, whisked into a group of peaks competing for the show, the dangerous rocky deep valley of the mountains.